Word: misfitting
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...seems. When Robert returns to his childhood Washington home after receiving news that his father is dying, we discover that he is actually the wayward son in a family of musical prodigies. The redneck is not a redneck after all, but an alienated misfit, unable to adjust to either the intensely intellectual world of his family or the mindless physical world of Middle America. Robert is that figure increasingly common to American films-a man without a country...
...century ago. Until this year, however, with the publication of a remarkable book called Sexual Politics, the movement had no coherent theory to buttress its intuitive passions, no ideologue to provide chapter and verse for its assault on patriarchy. Kate Millett, 35, a sometime sculptor and longtime brilliant misfit in a man's world, has filled the role through Sexual Politics. "Reading the book is like sitting with your testicles in a nutcracker," says George Stade, assistant professor of English at Columbia University. He should know; the book was Kate's Ph.D. thesis, and he was one of her advisers...
...someone who didn't fit. He's lived around blacks a great deal in prison life, and became fascinated with them. I wouldn't attempt to go into all the psychological reasons behind that. But in the sense that he's lived all his life as a misfit, and outcast as it were. I think he understands motivations of black hatred, as well-or perhaps because he's not black and he's not involved in the anger, and can deal with the hatred alone, perhaps better-than the black writers who have dealt with...
...Arlo Guthrie, Ray and Alice Brock and the others who are at the center of Alice's Restaurant are a different kind of misfit in a different kind of misfit in a different kind of America. They are potent, generous people with good minds and uncluttered hearts. They know how to love. And the America they find themselves in is not one of depression but one of abundance...
...credit union with $35 in assets (it now has more than $50,000). By August 1964, he had 1,000 members, each paying $3.50 a month in dues?no small sum for a farm worker's family. Soon he began publishing a union newspaper called El Malcriado (The Misfit), whose circulation...